Horatio Cane Wickham (1833-1912)

WICKHAM

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/12/2017 at 20:08:54

From Nevada Representative December 31, 1912 (front page)

County Correspondence

ZEARING

H. C. Wickham, one of the early settlers of this county, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 1912 at about 1 o'clock at his home northeast of town. The funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the Evangelical church with Rev. C. H. Stauffacher in charge. Obituary will be given in next issue.

Also on the front page of this issue:

OBITUARY

DEATH OF H. C. WICKHAM

The death, elsewhere noted, of the death of H. C. Wickham of Zearing will occasion very great regret in the county at large and in the locality where he lived. Mr. Wickham was one of the patriarchs of the county. He located in the northeastern part of what is now Lincoln township in the latter '50s. Though there were in that vicinity one or two settlers before him they were not the ones that stuck, and it thus comes about that he has been counted, and properly so, the oldest of the permanent settlers of Lincoln township. At the time he located there and for something like twenty-five years afterward the neighborhood was known as "Illinois Grove," the center of which was over the line to Marshall county, and throughout that territory as settlers came in and made it a community, he was recognized as one of the worthiest and most substantial citizens. He was always interested in public affairs and, as we understand it, the Representative loses in him one of its two or three original subscribers In the thirty years that the paper has been under its recent management he has been a periodical caller, at this office and always he has had words of cheer, good sense and sound principle. His stories of his early experiences were very interesting and he afforded a very commendable example of what could be accomplished in a new country by one of the right sort of industry and thrift. He was the father of a large family and and he and his good wife brought up the brood in the way that youngsters should grow. He was around eighty years of age and he will be much honored in his passing.